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Why are the rain clouds shaped in this way?(feddit.org)

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A bug in the matrix or just the radar? This is no normal cloud-shape, is it?

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wren@feddit.uk
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Oooh, excellent point! The german weather service (DWD, which OP is using) has 17 operational weather radar… looks like an artefact to me!

EDIT: it’s not an artefact, but insects!

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ᴇᴍᴘᴇʀᴏʀ 帝@feddit.uk
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Bingo! Nice find.

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wren@feddit.uk
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Wait, I’m wrong yet again!!! “A bug in the matrix” in the description should have clued me in…

The DWD network is surely more reliable than this, and it’s nice high pressure, so it’s rain-free and plenty of updrafts, so it’s perfect conditions for insects!! They cause enormous signals, no idea why I didn’t think of it first.

(Seen recently in the news in the UK here )

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Peter_Arbeitslos@feddit.orgOP
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Damn, I thought insects was some English meterological term for special clouds, but really? Insects? Thats kind of amazing!

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I haven’t heard about it, but it’s the most reasonable explanation. The radars have been influenced by the swarms of insects, but only by those which were near to the radar-locations as it’s described on the screenshot below.

The website is really old: https://www.radartutorial.eu/15.weather/wr22.en.html

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